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Thursday, December 05, 2013

Temperance in appetite

God's intention and design for creation is that all should be
well fed. In the brokenness of our world, this is not so; there is a broad
gap between God's ideal and the reality of hunger in our world, owing in
large part to the human resistance to sharing. The Old Testament insists on
lavish generosity: "Open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and
to thy needy, in thy land"" (Deut 15:11, KJV). When we eat redemptively, we
honor God's desire for all to be fed by taking action to close that gap.
This awareness does not diminish the reality of pleasure or the importance
of gratitude. It can, however, encourage us toward temperance in our
appetites.

About Me

I write stuff (lots of it), compose music, act in plays, play the piano....and now, after half a century of being a person who goes to work, I've retired.

Read heaps of books, like classical music (and older popular music). Have been a Christian all my life - under various guises: Catholic, Pentecostal, Baptist - (worked from 2007-2010 for the Presbyterians). Ecumenism alive!

In 2014 I published three e-books. The first two form part of the *Grimhilderness* series.

Grimhilda! a fantasy for children and their parents, about a little boy whose parents are kidnapped by his babysitter.

The Mumbersons and the Blood Secret: a kind of sequel to Grimhilda!, with some of the same characters, in which Grimhilda's sisters want the hero's blood...but why?

Diary of a Prostate Wimp, a non-fiction book about my experiences with a prostate operation, available

And this year, 2017, I've finally completed a third book in the Grimhilderness series: The Disenchanted Wizard, in which the heroine finds herself sent into a map to search for her father.